Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) University of Edinburgh, Department of Health in Social Science

Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) Vacancy Ref: : 044498 Closing Date : 03-Sep-2018 Contact Person : Joanne Hendry Contact Number : 0131 650 3887 Contact Email : HR.Health@ed.ac.uk The post holder will advance knowledge in an area relevant to the subject area through research and knowledge exchange, and contribute to an excellent learning experience for students. The post holder will contribute to our professionally-validated postgraduate programmes in counselling and psychotherapy and to other programmes (including the MA Health, Science and Society), working collegially with the existing academic team in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) and the wider School and University. The post holder will contribute to research and master’s supervision and advance research activity, including grant applications, working in research teams and publishing for academic and professional audiences to a level that is commensurate with at least international excellence standards of the Research Excellence Framework. This is a full time (35 hours) open ended post. Salary: £39,992 - £47,722 per annum. Closing date: 5pm (GMT) 3rd September 2018. Job Details Job title: Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) School/Support Department: Health in Social Science Unit: Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences Line manager: Head of School Main Responsibilities Lead programmes and organise and teach courses in CPASS (Approx % of time 25) Set and mark assessments and advise students on their progress (Approx % of time 5) Provide tutorials to individual students and small groups with the aim of supporting their learning trajectory and integration of their learning (Approx % of time 5) Supervise students’ masters dissertations (Approx % of time 5) Contribute to the delivery and development of approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in CPASS (Approx % of time 5) Contribute to the organisation and administration of the activities of the subject area and the wider School (Approx % of time 10) Contribute to research and knowledge exchange in the School by developing research proposals, securing research grants, conducting research projects and/or contributing to wider research and knowledge exchange programmes (Approx % of time 25) Disseminate and publish research findings in peer reviewed academic journals at a national and international level (Approx % of time 15) Supervise students preparing DPsychotherapy theses and PhD research theses. (Approx % of time 5) Planning and Organising The post holder would: • Plan and review own teaching activity • Contribute to the organisation of relevant programmes and projects • Contribute to postgraduate supervision planning for masters students and research students • Contribute to the recruitment and selection of doctoral students • Develop and contribute to individual and collaborative research activity, including grant applications, project management and preparation for jointly written reports and publications Decision Making The post holder would: • Take responsibility, in consultation with Head of Subject Area, for decisions relating to own activities and for the management of any resources allocated in the context of the wider teaching programme • With other research supervisors, make decisions in relation to the development and delivery of research supervision • Manage research projects, meeting the expectations of governance in the University and external research funders • Decide on activities required for development towards or maintenance of own professional accreditation status Key Contacts/Relationships • Work closely with Head of Subject Area and other research supervisors in promoting and enhancing the postgraduate and research student experience • Liaise with School and Subject Area Research Directors and Deputy Directors • Head of School Knowledge, Skills and Experience Needed for the Job Essential The post holder will: • Possess a professional qualification in counselling or psychotherapy • Be accredited with a professional counselling and/or psychotherapy body (e.g. BACP, COSCA, etc.) or eligible, and with sufficient experience, to apply for accreditation • Be grounded in the person-centred approach or psychodynamic approach (or in the dialogue between the two); and be committed to the dialogue between the person-centred and psychodynamic perspectives, which forms the core orientation of the counselling and psychotherapy programmes • Have a track record of research activity in counselling and psychotherapy or another research field within the compass of CPASS • Have a track record of high quality research published in relevant peer refereed journals • Be willing to undertake research supervision of doctoral students in CPASS • Be educated to doctoral level in a relevant discipline • Have experience of teaching at undergraduate or postgraduate level • Have a demonstrable commitment to the support of student learning • Have experience of leadership and team working, including excellent interpersonal skills • Have excellent written and oral communication, presentation and organisational skills • Be highly self-motivated, able to work both independently and collaboratively, able to plan and initiate activities and projects • Hold a relevant higher education teaching qualification or be willing to undertake the University’s Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice Desirable The post holder will have: • Experience of teaching, facilitation and/or training in counselling and psychotherapy • A track record of securing research funding • Experience of research ethics review processes • Experience of doctoral supervision Job Context and any other relevant information • While working mostly in CPASS, the post holder will work with colleagues with similar responsibilities in the School • The post holder will undertake academic duties pertaining to their substantive role in the subject area Application Procedure All applicants should apply online by clicking the apply link at the bottom of this page and submitting an up to date CV. The application process is quick and easy to follow, and you will receive email confirmation of safe receipt of your application. The online system allows you to submit a CV and other attachments. You will be notified by email whether you have been shortlisted for interview or not. The closing date is 5pm (GMT) 3rd September 2018. Eligibility to Work In accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 and Immigration Act 2016 the University of Edinburgh, as an employer, has a legal responsibility to prevent illegal working and therefore must check that all employees are entitled to work in the United Kingdom (UK). To do so, the University requires to see original documents evidencing right to work in the UK before commencement of employment and this is normally carried out at interview. Details will be provided in any letter of invitation to interview. For further information on eligibility to work please visit our eligibility to work webpage If you are from outside the EEA and not currently eligible to work in the UK, there are visa routes that may be available to you, for example: Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent): If you are an academic in the field of sciences; humanities; engineering; medicine; digital technology; or the arts, it may be possible for you to apply for a Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa. This route requires you to apply to be endorsed as an internationally recognised leader or emerging leader in your particular field by a designated competent body (Arts Council England, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, Tech City UK). However, if you are applying for a senior academic role, e.g. Professor/Reader there is an accelerated route to endorsement. Further information can be found on the UKVI website Tier 2: The University is a UKVI licensed sponsor and is able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to successful candidates who are offered highly skilled roles and meet the eligibility criteria. The CoS enables candidates to apply for a Tier 2 (general visa). Further information about whether you require a visa and other visa routes can be found at: www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa Conditions of Employment Pension Scheme This role is grade UE08 and therefore the post holder is automatically included in membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), subject to the USS membership criteria, unless they indicate that they choose not to join the Scheme. For further information please visit our Pensions website. Salary The role is grade UE08 and attracts an annual salary of £ £39,992 to £ £47,722 for 35 hours (full time) each week. Salary is paid monthly by direct transfer to your Bank or Building Society account, normally on the 28th of the month. Salaries for part-time staff are calculated on the full-time scales, pro-rata to the Standard Working Week. The University reserves the right to vary the candidate information or make no appointment at all. Neither in part, nor in whole does this information form part of any contract between the University and any individual. Counselling and Psychotherapy Counselling and Psychotherapy is one of Scotland’s leading providers of postgraduate education, training and research in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Since the 1970s, Counselling and Psychotherapy has been at the forefront of the development of counselling as a professional activity in Scotland and across the globe. We provide a range of professionally accredited education programmes, from the Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma, through to Masters and Professional Doctorate. We also offer research degrees, the MSc by Research and PhD/MPhil. To support our training and research, we operate our own public counselling service, the Hope Park Counselling Centre, one of only three such centres in the UK. Our core orientation is a dialogue between psychodynamic perspectives and the person-centred approach. Our core ethos is to provide a rich relational engagement with clients, students, research participants and colleagues, an engagement which values dialogue, subjectivity, diversity and the complexity of the lives we live in contemporary times. The staff team is made up of senior practitioners in the field, who are also experienced teachers, supervisors and researchers. We are committed to original, empirical and theoretical research that engages critically with the practices of counselling and psychotherapy, and we are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life, as well as research that draws directly on practitioners’ own therapeutic work. Our expertise lies in qualitative, reflexive and critical research approaches. Methodologically we draw upon autoethnographic, arts-informed, narrative and collaborative traditions. Our research portfolio is interdisciplinary, integrating concepts, practices and scholarship from counselling and psychotherapy with a range of disciplines including sociology, human geography, philosophy, theology, religious studies, education and cultural studies. Our research interests include: marginalised client groups, including people who have experienced trauma, people with disabilities, children and young people social, cultural and political contexts of therapeutic practice and professional training interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature and contribution of counselling and psychotherapy the relationship between self, practical knowledge and professional practice/wisdom spirituality and counselling/psychotherapy methodological innovation in qualitative research, including approaches arising from the practices of counselling and psychotherapy Interdisciplinary research is encouraged through the School’s research and knowledge exchange themes of: child and adolescent mental health disability critical care ageing and dementia The School of Health in Social Science The School of Health in Social Science is a vibrant research and professionally driven academic School which strives to have a transformational impact on individuals and communities through internationally excellent research, knowledge exchange, learning and teaching. The distinctive composition of disciplines in the School leads to an emphasis on optimising physical, mental and emotional health for people; amplifying the potential of people and communities vulnerable to exclusion and working with others to achieve this. The Subject Areas are: Clinical Psychology; Nursing Studies; Counselling & Psychotherapy; Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Health. The School works in partnership with a wide range of global and local educational and research partners. The School of Health in Social Science is a leading provider of postgraduate and undergraduate education in health, health policy and related fields. We offer two undergraduate programmes (one leading to professional registration in nursing); together with several postgraduate degrees in Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dementia, Health and Social Care and Nursing Studies and an expanding range of Continuing Professional Development and on-line distance learning opportunities. The School of Health in Social Science holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance the representation of women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci) The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a large and diverse part of the University. Led by Vice-Principal Professor Dorothy Miell, it has 13,800 undergraduates, 5,500 taught postgraduates, 1,300 research students and more than 3,800 academic and professional services staff. The College incorporates 11 Schools (Business; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh College of Art; Education; Health in Social Sciences; History, Classics and Archaeology; Law; Literatures, Languages and Cultures; Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences; and Social and Political Science), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Centre for Open Learning. The College is located on multiple sites across Edinburgh, with the majority of Schools and College Offices based close to the central George Square area. The College, which is recognised as one of the world's leading centres for the arts, humanities and social sciences in research and teaching, has been growing and investing strongly in recent years. Research Excellence Framework 2014 (REF2014) The College operates at the highest levels of international quality across a very wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences and submitted the work of more than 750 staff to 23 Units of Assessment in the Research Excellence Framework 2014. The College achieved a superb result, combining a large-scale, broad and diverse submission with very high quality outcomes: 86% of its research impact and 76% of the overall quality profile were assessed as world-leading (4) and internationally excellent (3). Using the widely used Research Power index (which combines the submission's overall score for 3* and 4* work with the volume of staff submitted), 12 of the College’s Units were ranked within the top five in the UK, and 18 were ranked first in Scotland. With an assessment of more than 95% at 3* and 4, we're particularly proud of the outstanding research environment we create for staff and research students. The University of Edinburgh* For more than four centuries, our people and their achievements have rewritten history time and again. They’ve explored space, revolutionised surgery, published era-defining books, paved the way for life-saving medical breakthroughs and introduced to the world many inventions, discoveries and ideas from penicillin to Dolly the sheep. We have believed that anything is possible, we still do. The latest Research Excellence Framework highlighted our place at the forefront of international research. This adds to our international reputation for the quality of our teaching and our student experience excellence. The University is proud of its success with online teaching initiatives, with 2550 students currently studying its online distance learning postgraduate programmes, and a total to date of more than 2 million enrolments for Edinburgh MOOCs. As a member of staff, you will be part of one of the world's leading universities, with 20 Schools spread over 3 Colleges that offer more than 1600 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate programmes to over 35,000 students each year. Professional services are critical to this success as well as our world-class teaching, research and student facilities. In fact, we are one of the top employers in Edinburgh, with over 13,000 people spread across a wide range of academic and supporting roles. As a world-changing, world-leading university, we offer an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent, develop and reward success and integrate academic, professional and personal career goals, as well as give your career the benefit of a great and distinguished reputation. In addition, our employees benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which include generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided. The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. The University has a range of initiatives to support a family friendly working environment, including flexible working and childcare vouchers. See our University Initiatives website for further information. University Family Friendly Initiatives The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. If you apply for this position please say you saw it on Psychoneuroxy Apply

Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS)

Vacancy Ref: : 044498

Closing Date : 03-Sep-2018

Contact Person : Joanne Hendry

Contact Number : 0131 650 3887

Contact Email : HR.Health@ed.ac.uk

The post holder will advance knowledge in an area relevant to the subject area through research and knowledge exchange, and contribute to an excellent learning experience for students. The post holder will contribute to our professionally-validated postgraduate programmes in counselling and psychotherapy and to other programmes (including the MA Health, Science and Society), working collegially with the existing academic team in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS) and the wider School and University. The post holder will contribute to research and master’s supervision and advance research activity, including grant applications, working in research teams and publishing for academic and professional audiences to a level that is commensurate with at least international excellence standards of the Research Excellence Framework.

This is a full time (35 hours) open ended post.

Salary: £39,992 - £47,722 per annum.

Closing date: 5pm (GMT) 3rd September 2018.

Job Details

Job title: Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences (CPASS)

School/Support Department: Health in Social Science

Unit: Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences

Line manager: Head of School

Main Responsibilities

Lead programmes and organise and teach courses in CPASS (Approx % of time 25)
Set and mark assessments and advise students on their progress (Approx % of time 5)
Provide tutorials to individual students and small groups with the aim of supporting their learning trajectory and integration of their learning (Approx % of time 5)
Supervise students’ masters dissertations (Approx % of time 5)
Contribute to the delivery and development of approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in CPASS (Approx % of time 5)
Contribute to the organisation and administration of the activities of the subject area and the wider School (Approx % of time 10)
Contribute to research and knowledge exchange in the School by developing research proposals, securing research grants, conducting research projects and/or contributing to wider research and knowledge exchange programmes (Approx % of time 25)
Disseminate and publish research findings in peer reviewed academic journals at a national and international level (Approx % of time 15)
Supervise students preparing DPsychotherapy theses and PhD research theses. (Approx % of time 5)

Planning and Organising
The post holder would:
• Plan and review own teaching activity
• Contribute to the organisation of relevant programmes and projects
• Contribute to postgraduate supervision planning for masters students and research students
• Contribute to the recruitment and selection of doctoral students
• Develop and contribute to individual and collaborative research activity, including grant applications, project management and preparation for jointly written reports and publications

Decision Making
The post holder would:
• Take responsibility, in consultation with Head of Subject Area, for decisions relating to own activities and for the management of any resources allocated in the context of the wider teaching programme
• With other research supervisors, make decisions in relation to the development and delivery of research supervision
• Manage research projects, meeting the expectations of governance in the University and external research funders
• Decide on activities required for development towards or maintenance of own professional accreditation status

Key Contacts/Relationships
• Work closely with Head of Subject Area and other research supervisors in promoting and enhancing the postgraduate and research student experience
• Liaise with School and Subject Area Research Directors and Deputy Directors
• Head of School

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Needed for the Job

Essential
The post holder will:
• Possess a professional qualification in counselling or psychotherapy
• Be accredited with a professional counselling and/or psychotherapy body (e.g. BACP, COSCA, etc.) or eligible, and with sufficient experience, to apply for accreditation
• Be grounded in the person-centred approach or psychodynamic approach (or in the dialogue between the two); and be committed to the dialogue between the person-centred and psychodynamic perspectives, which forms the core orientation of the counselling and psychotherapy programmes
• Have a track record of research activity in counselling and psychotherapy or another research field within the compass of CPASS
• Have a track record of high quality research published in relevant peer refereed journals
• Be willing to undertake research supervision of doctoral students in CPASS
• Be educated to doctoral level in a relevant discipline
• Have experience of teaching at undergraduate or postgraduate level
• Have a demonstrable commitment to the support of student learning
• Have experience of leadership and team working, including excellent interpersonal skills
• Have excellent written and oral communication, presentation and organisational skills
• Be highly self-motivated, able to work both independently and collaboratively, able to plan and initiate activities and projects
• Hold a relevant higher education teaching qualification or be willing to undertake the University’s Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice

Desirable

The post holder will have:
• Experience of teaching, facilitation and/or training in counselling and psychotherapy
• A track record of securing research funding
• Experience of research ethics review processes
• Experience of doctoral supervision

Job Context and any other relevant information
• While working mostly in CPASS, the post holder will work with colleagues with similar responsibilities in the School
• The post holder will undertake academic duties pertaining to their substantive role in the subject area

Application Procedure

All applicants should apply online by clicking the apply link at the bottom of this page and submitting an up to date CV. The application process is quick and easy to follow, and you will receive email confirmation of safe receipt of your application. The online system allows you to submit a CV and other attachments.

You will be notified by email whether you have been shortlisted for interview or not.
The closing date is 5pm (GMT) 3rd September 2018.

Eligibility to Work

In accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 and Immigration Act 2016 the University of Edinburgh, as an employer, has a legal responsibility to prevent illegal working and therefore must check that all employees are entitled to work in the United Kingdom (UK).
To do so, the University requires to see original documents evidencing right to work in the UK before commencement of employment and this is normally carried out at interview. Details will be provided in any letter of invitation to interview.

For further information on eligibility to work please visit our eligibility to work webpage

If you are from outside the EEA and not currently eligible to work in the UK, there are visa routes that may be available to you, for example:

Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent): If you are an academic in the field of sciences; humanities; engineering; medicine; digital technology; or the arts, it may be possible for you to apply for a Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) visa. This route requires you to apply to be endorsed as an internationally recognised leader or emerging leader in your particular field by a designated competent body (Arts Council England, British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, Tech City UK). However, if you are applying for a senior academic role, e.g. Professor/Reader there is an accelerated route to endorsement. Further information can be found on the UKVI website
Tier 2: The University is a UKVI licensed sponsor and is able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to successful candidates who are offered highly skilled roles and meet the eligibility criteria. The CoS enables candidates to apply for a Tier 2 (general visa).

Further information about whether you require a visa and other visa routes can be found at: www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

Conditions of Employment

Pension Scheme

This role is grade UE08 and therefore the post holder is automatically included in membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), subject to the USS membership criteria, unless they indicate that they choose not to join the Scheme.

For further information please visit our Pensions website.

Salary

The role is grade UE08 and attracts an annual salary of £ £39,992 to £ £47,722 for 35 hours (full time) each week. Salary is paid monthly by direct transfer to your Bank or Building Society account, normally on the 28th of the month. Salaries for part-time staff are calculated on the full-time scales, pro-rata to the Standard Working Week.

The University reserves the right to vary the candidate information or make no appointment at all. Neither in part, nor in whole does this information form part of any contract between the University and any individual.

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Counselling and Psychotherapy is one of Scotland’s leading providers of postgraduate education, training and research in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Since the 1970s, Counselling and Psychotherapy has been at the forefront of the development of counselling as a professional activity in Scotland and across the globe. We provide a range of professionally accredited education programmes, from the Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma, through to Masters and Professional Doctorate. We also offer research degrees, the MSc by Research and PhD/MPhil. To support our training and research, we operate our own public counselling service, the Hope Park Counselling Centre, one of only three such centres in the UK. Our core orientation is a dialogue between psychodynamic perspectives and the person-centred approach. Our core ethos is to provide a rich relational engagement with clients, students, research participants and colleagues, an engagement which values dialogue, subjectivity, diversity and the complexity of the lives we live in contemporary times.

The staff team is made up of senior practitioners in the field, who are also experienced teachers, supervisors and researchers. We are committed to original, empirical and theoretical research that engages critically with the practices of counselling and psychotherapy, and we are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life, as well as research that draws directly on practitioners’ own therapeutic work. Our expertise lies in qualitative, reflexive and critical research approaches. Methodologically we draw upon autoethnographic, arts-informed, narrative and collaborative traditions. Our research portfolio is interdisciplinary, integrating concepts, practices and scholarship from counselling and psychotherapy with a range of disciplines including sociology, human geography, philosophy, theology, religious studies, education and cultural studies.
Our research interests include:

marginalised client groups, including people who have experienced trauma, people with disabilities, children and young people
social, cultural and political contexts of therapeutic practice and professional training
interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature and contribution of counselling and psychotherapy
the relationship between self, practical knowledge and professional practice/wisdom
spirituality and counselling/psychotherapy
methodological innovation in qualitative research, including approaches arising from the practices of counselling and psychotherapy

Interdisciplinary research is encouraged through the School’s research and knowledge exchange themes of:

child and adolescent mental health
disability
critical care
ageing and dementia

The School of Health in Social Science

The School of Health in Social Science is a vibrant research and professionally driven academic School which strives to have a transformational impact on individuals and communities through internationally excellent research, knowledge exchange, learning and teaching. The distinctive composition of disciplines in the School leads to an emphasis on optimising physical, mental and emotional health for people; amplifying the potential of people and communities vulnerable to exclusion and working with others to achieve this. The Subject Areas are: Clinical Psychology; Nursing Studies; Counselling & Psychotherapy; Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Health. The School works in partnership with a wide range of global and local educational and research partners.

The School of Health in Social Science is a leading provider of postgraduate and undergraduate education in health, health policy and related fields. We offer two undergraduate programmes (one leading to professional registration in nursing); together with several postgraduate degrees in Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dementia, Health and Social Care and Nursing Studies and an expanding range of Continuing Professional Development and on-line distance learning opportunities.

The School of Health in Social Science holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance the representation of women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci)
The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a large and diverse part of the University. Led by Vice-Principal Professor Dorothy Miell, it has 13,800 undergraduates, 5,500 taught postgraduates, 1,300 research students and more than 3,800 academic and professional services staff. The College incorporates 11 Schools (Business; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh College of Art; Education; Health in Social Sciences; History, Classics and Archaeology; Law; Literatures, Languages and Cultures; Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences; and Social and Political Science), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Centre for Open Learning. The College is located on multiple sites across Edinburgh, with the majority of Schools and College Offices based close to the central George Square area. The College, which is recognised as one of the world's leading centres for the arts, humanities and social sciences in research and teaching, has been growing and investing strongly in recent years.

Research Excellence Framework 2014 (REF2014)

The College operates at the highest levels of international quality across a very wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences and submitted the work of more than 750 staff to 23 Units of Assessment in the Research Excellence Framework 2014. The College achieved a superb result, combining a large-scale, broad and diverse submission with very high quality outcomes: 86% of its research impact and 76% of the overall quality profile were assessed as world-leading (4*) and internationally excellent (3*). Using the widely used Research Power index (which combines the submission's overall score for 3* and 4* work with the volume of staff submitted), 12 of the College’s Units were ranked within the top five in the UK, and 18 were ranked first in Scotland. With an assessment of more than 95% at 3* and 4*, we're particularly proud of the outstanding research environment we create for staff and research students.

The University of Edinburgh

For more than four centuries, our people and their achievements have rewritten history time and again. They’ve explored space, revolutionised surgery, published era-defining books, paved the way for life-saving medical breakthroughs and introduced to the world many inventions, discoveries and ideas from penicillin to Dolly the sheep. We have believed that anything is possible, we still do.

The latest Research Excellence Framework highlighted our place at the forefront of international research. This adds to our international reputation for the quality of our teaching and our student experience excellence. The University is proud of its success with online teaching initiatives, with 2550 students currently studying its online distance learning postgraduate programmes, and a total to date of more than 2 million enrolments for Edinburgh MOOCs.

As a member of staff, you will be part of one of the world's leading universities, with 20 Schools spread over 3 Colleges that offer more than 1600 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate programmes to over 35,000 students each year. Professional services are critical to this success as well as our world-class teaching, research and student facilities. In fact, we are one of the top employers in Edinburgh, with over 13,000 people spread across a wide range of academic and supporting roles.

As a world-changing, world-leading university, we offer an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent, develop and reward success and integrate academic, professional and personal career goals, as well as give your career the benefit of a great and distinguished reputation. In addition, our employees benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which include generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. The University has a range of initiatives to support a family friendly working environment, including flexible working and childcare vouchers. See our University Initiatives website for further information.

University Family Friendly Initiatives

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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